Human Sacrifices and Funeral Feast

A movie from the Stone Age, 2400 years old soup, forgotten images from the moon – 2010 was rich in archaeological discoveries. Some discoveries shudder themselves hard-core researchers.

It was an exciting year for archaeologists. 2010 began with a sensation in the Amazon jungle, it ended with a delicious discovery in China. Researchers came across the Amazon landscape character of a previously unknown civilization. More than 700 years, built huge monuments and streets natives there – 200 years before Christopher Columbus arrived.

As similar spectacular finds himself proved in Mexico, where archaeologists promoted mysterious treasures from the grave of a Maya ruler to light. But first they had to dig through the remains of human sacrifices. In summer, researchers discovered then in the northern Italian region of Lombardy is a relic of Stone Age art of entertainment: rock paintings that are reminiscent of films.

In autumn, a success message from Germany: Saxony-Anhalt, researchers had unearthed a dozen settlements from the Bronze Age. The surprising conclusion of researchers: The area was inhabited for thousands of years denser than today.

Sometimes the discoveries could but shudder even die-hard archaeologists. The root of the Moche of Peru celebrated a cult of the dead apparently of a special kind He made ​​his deceased by eating insects. The remains of the funeral feast, experts in October.